Jimmy Godden Movies

This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus...

A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In...

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the...

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the...

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various...

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic...

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs...

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall...

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his...

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

A telephonist falls for her employer.

Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as...

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.